BERRIES AND GARDEN FRUITS 



This fruit is so different from either raspberry 

 or blackberry that the nurserymen classify it with 

 neither, but in a new group. The combination is 

 so fixed that there is never reversion to either 

 raspberry or blackberry in any generation. In 

 other words, the Phenomenal berry also is a new 

 species that breeds true. 



The Paradox berry has for its ancestors the 

 Lawton blackberry and the Crystal White black- 

 berry. The hybrid offspring of this union were 

 selected and inbred through several generations, 

 and the berry named the Paradox appeared in the 

 fourth generation. 



Of these three remarkable new species of brier 

 fruits, then, one is a first-generation hybrid, an- 

 other a second-generation hybrid, and the third 

 a fourth-generation hybrid. 



QUANTITY PEODUCTION 



It must be understood that in each case Mr. 

 Burbank was dealing with large numbers of hy- 

 brids, and that the berry finally selected and 

 named was the best individual in a fraternity that 

 included thousands or tens of thousands of indi- 

 viduals. While the blackberry-raspberry experi- 

 ments were under way, indeed, Mr. Burbank had 

 occasion each successive season to select a few 

 individuals as representing most nearly the ideal 

 at which he aimed, the remaining plants being 

 uprooted, piled in a heap, and burned. 



On one occasion no fewer than 65,000 hybrid 

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